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African Climate Change Negotiators Propose Billions in Compensation From Rich Nations
Of course they do. Representatives of eight African countries proposed Aug. 24 that the continent's leaders should seek more than $67 billion per year in compensation from developed countries at a U.N. climate change summit to be held in Copenhagen in December. Why not just ask Bambi for it? That's chump change to him.... The proposal was drafted by negotiators from Algeria, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda who met in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. "Africa needs to be compensated for the damage to its economy caused by climate change, although it contributes little to global warming," Africa contributes little to any g-d thing, except violence, expecially against its own people. Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, the African Union's commissioner for rural economy and agriculture, said. A background "concept note" developed for a recent meeting of the panel on climate change stressed the need for African countries to support legally binding instruments to deal with global climate change. And who's going to enforce these "instruments"? Somalia? Besides the compensation issue, the paper called for major emitters of greenhouse gases to reduce their emissions by at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, and by up to 95 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The paper recommended that developed countries commit 0.5 percent of their gross domestic product to climate change mitigation in developing countries. I'll commit to a hail and hearty "FU" - will that suffice? "Developed countries should also commit to the deployment, diffusion, and transfer of technology to developing countries, based on principles of Link is to Africa Union website; scroll down to "24 August 2009 Meeting" for concept paper, texts of speeches, and other documents. Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-28 |
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